Subject: Thunder

From: friday@fridayjones.com (Friday Jones)
Newsgroups: alt.slack,alt.friday
Date: Thu, Sep 13, 2001 9:56 PM
Message-ID: <friday-ya02408000R1309012156210001@news.us.inter.net>

I just heard the sound of thunder outside.

And I went outside, and listened, and wondered if it really was thunder.

Welcome to how the rest of the world lives.
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Subject: Re: Thunder
From: "Rev. Ivan Stang" <stang@subgenius.com>
Newsgroups: alt.slack,alt.friday
Date: Thu, Sep 13, 2001 11:32 PM
Message-ID: <130920012332013251%stang@subgenius.com>

In article <friday-ya02408000R1309012156210001@news.us.inter.net>,
Friday Jones <friday@fridayjones.com> wrote:

> I just heard the sound of thunder outside.
>
> And I went outside, and listened, and wondered if it really was thunder.
>
>
> Welcome to how the rest of the world lives.

Welcome to how ordinary American teenagers felt during the cold war.
Like nobody in the U.S. ever lived under the threat of impending
instant annihilation before! I got caught in a freak hailstorm in July
once when I was 16, and thought for sure it was a new Russian secret
weapon. Every time a radio went dead I thought it was the EMP.

Welcome to the End Times, boys and girls!

--
4th Stangian Orthodox MegaFisTemple Lodge of the Wrath of Dobbs Yeti,
Resurrected
P.O. Box 181417, Cleveland, OH 44118 (fax 216-320-9528)
A subsidiary of:
The SubGenius Foundation, Inc. / P.O. Box 140306, Dallas, TX 75214
SubSITE: http://www.subgenius.com PRABOB
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Subject: Re: Thunder
From: "Rabbi Jacklyn Hyde" <rabbs@subgenius.com>
Newsgroups: alt.slack,alt.friday
Date: Thu, Sep 13, 2001 11:43 PM
Message-ID: <32fo7.2623$pH1.135677@monger.newsread.com>

"Friday Jones" <friday@fridayjones.com> wrote in message
news:friday-ya02408000R1309012156210001@news.us.inter.net...
> I just heard the sound of thunder outside.
>
> And I went outside, and listened, and wondered if it really was thunder.
>
>
> Welcome to how the rest of the world lives.
>
Exactly my reaction when I heard a plane fly overhead. It took me a second
to remember, it's okay, I live near an Naval Air Base. Odd that the noise
of an airplane is now so scary...
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Subject: Re: Thunder
From: "Ricky Nielsen" <Rickyn@lor.net>
Newsgroups: alt.slack,alt.friday
Date: Fri, Sep 14, 2001 12:31 AM
Message-ID: <kKfo7.17$Aa1.10123365@news2.randori.com>

Rabbi Jacklyn Hyde wrote in message
<32fo7.2623$pH1.135677@monger.newsread.com>...
>
>"Friday Jones" <friday@fridayjones.com> wrote in message
>news:friday-ya02408000R1309012156210001@news.us.inter.net...
>> I just heard the sound of thunder outside.
>>
>> And I went outside, and listened, and wondered if it really was thunder.
>>
>>
>> Welcome to how the rest of the world lives.
>>
>Exactly my reaction when I heard a plane fly overhead. It took me a second
>to remember, it's okay, I live near an Naval Air Base. Odd that the noise
>of an airplane is now so scary...
>

Peoples you got to fight these feelings/ that reaction is what the assholes
that did this wanted / hell I rember the days Stang was talking about/ since
ww2 we have been under the threat of death/ so what? / it is just a reminder
to live every moment as if it were the most important moment of your life/
>
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Subject: Re: Thunder
From: joecosby@mindspring.com (Joe Cosby)
Newsgroups: alt.slack,alt.friday
Date: Fri, Sep 14, 2001 1:29 AM
Message-ID: <3ba19518.6189669@News.CIS.DFN.DE>

"Rabbi Jacklyn Hyde" <rabbs@subgenius.com> hunched over a computer,
typing feverishly;
thunder crashed, "Rabbi Jacklyn Hyde" <rabbs@subgenius.com> laughed
madly, then wrote:

>
>"Friday Jones" <friday@fridayjones.com> wrote in message
>news:friday-ya02408000R1309012156210001@news.us.inter.net...
>> I just heard the sound of thunder outside.
>>
>> And I went outside, and listened, and wondered if it really was thunder.
>>
>>
>> Welcome to how the rest of the world lives.
>>
>Exactly my reaction when I heard a plane fly overhead. It took me a second
>to remember, it's okay, I live near an Naval Air Base. Odd that the noise
>of an airplane is now so scary...

Right after the crash I was on IRC and I stopped to go to the
bathroom. A light burned out or something ... but there was a bright
blue, electric flash of light.

I walked back into the living room, and I didn't know what it was.
None of the light bulbs were burned out.

So I found myself thinking: If they did detonate a nuke in Seattle
(and somebody was trying to sneak a bomb in on new year's day 2000)
it's possible the flash would be visible from here.

I tried to calculate in my head what the flash to bang time would be.
It would take a while.

So I stood there, wondering if I'd rather take cover, and try to
survive, or step outside and hope the blast wiped me off the face of
the earth.

--
Joe Cosby
http://joecosby.home.mindspring.com

"Your diplomacy is higher than mine!"
"He was being diplomatic and not saying so."
-- Big Gay Gaming Group

Sig by Kookie Jar 5.98d http://go.to/generalfrenetics/
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Subject: Re: Thunder
From: Artemia Salina <y2k@sheayright.com>
Newsgroups: alt.slack,alt.friday
Date: Fri, Sep 14, 2001 3:51 AM
Message-ID: <3BA1B6F4.3535F8E8@sheayright.com>

Friday Jones wrote:
>
> I just heard the sound of thunder outside.
>
> And I went outside, and listened, and wondered if it really was thunder.
>
> Welcome to how the rest of the world lives.

I live in Connecticut, about 100 miles or so from lower Manhattan, and
since Tuesday afternoon I could swear that I've been getting whiffs of
the smoke from the WTC wreckage. Makes sense too, because the winds shifted
to the north east about then. I could be imagining it, and would be
equally as unsurprised if that were the case.

On Wednesday I thought I heard what sounded like a small airplane's
engine in the distance so I bolted outside to see if I could see it,
considering that there was supposed to be no air traffic then.

I've never been a fan of comic books or comic book heroes, but I did an
image over in a.b.s yesterday of King Kong straddling the WTC swatting
airplanes out of the sky because to be honest, in my fantasies I really
could use a super hero right about now, even if it's just a monkey with
a glandular condition.

--
Artemia Salina -- http://www.drpez.com/drali1.htm
Born in 1921 and still kicking.

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